23 Years After, Toke Makinwa Visits Abuja Home Where Her Parents Died in Gas Explosion (Photos)

Toke Makinwa in Abuja 

Popular Lagos media personality and Rhythm FM OAP, Toke Makinwa, for the first time in 23 years, paid a visit to the apartment where she lost her parents as a child in a gas explosion at the federal capital territory, Abuja.

"I've never been back there, it holds so much emotions and I always told myself I will only go once I have exhaled. Today I did; it was good to see where I played as a child, my home and so much more," the celebrity OAP wrote on Instagram.


Recall that her highly publicised book, "On Becoming", the self acclaimed bestselling author, revealed that she was only 8-years-old when a gas leak led to an explosion that killed her parents at their home in Abuja.

Toke in front of her parent's Abuja home 

In the book, the OAP walked down memory lane to that day when her life changed. Her father was only 35 and her mother, 34.

She said: “My dad had come out of the building smelling of burning rubber, putting out the fire on his shorts as he tried to explain what happened to a crowd that seemed to be getting bigger every minute. There was something I could taste in my mouth; it was fear.

Fear gripped me and I could barely move. In movies, you sometimes see a scene with someone burning from head to toe. Everyone ran back trying to figure out who it was. It took a moment to realise it was my mum. I stood glued to the spot watching her burn.”

Toke Makinwa, who is in Abuja for her book reading, says she is much stronger now and confronted that part of her life by visiting the old home. “It was good to see where I played as a child, my home and so much much,” she said.

Below are more photos she shared on Snapchat of what the home looks like now.